Benzie County Water Festival

08/09/2022

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department created a or residents to view their well and septic records online. The portal went live on the website with Leelanau County records in early 2021 and Benzie County records have been digitized and added just last month.

“In 2019, the Health Department advocated to the counties for funding to provide increased access to the department’s septic system and water well records for our residents by providing them a way to access our digitally scanned records,” said Eric Johnston, environmental health director for the Health Department. “The benefits of the portal were to improve public access to information, add natural disaster protection, and allow staff, homeowners, realtors, septic pumpers, and contractors to get convenient access to important information anywhere that has internet access.”

Read more at the Glen Arbor Sun: https://bit.ly/3BSK8sE .

The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department has created a portal in partnership with Laserfiche to increase access for residents to view their well and septic records. The portal went live on th…

05/27/2022

The Benzie Conservation District recently received a grant to help clean up Benzie...

05/23/2022

Sixth graders on the Crystal Lake Watershed Association field trip. Learning about water quality, invasive species, the health of our local lakes, and stewardship! 💧🦆🐟

05/02/2022

Very cool program!

05/01/2022

Our micro-grants have helped to fund all kinds of things, including today's showing at The Garden Theater!

04/25/2022

Did you participate last weekend in this Our Precious Waters Clean-Up Day, organized by Emily Hansen?

Here are a few photos that we've seen on Facebook of this great event -- big thanks to Emily for organizing, and to Jessica Ann Gilbert, Erin Gilbert, Karen Jean Marjan, Erica Lee Plesha, Rudy Strickland, and Jared Thompson for participating in the clean-up!

If you also participated, make sure to put your photos in the comments here and use the hash tag so that Emily can enter you in the drawing for one of her amazing pieces of art!

04/24/2022

Parents, family, and the public is invited to the releasing of the salmon at 10 a.m. on April 30 at the Platte River State Fish Hatchery, located east of the village of Honor on US-31.

Read at the Benzie County Record Patriot:

Benzie Central's seventh grade class have raise young salmon from eggs.

04/20/2022

04/20/2022

The premiere of film
“Water, Sand, and Sky” 🙌

Thursday @ The Garden
7:30pm

No advance tickets. Entry is free!

04/20/2022

During the week surrounding Earth Day, the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy has several opportunities to help plant over 1,500 native tree seedlings across its five-county service area... but they need volunteers to help make it happen!

Read more in the Benzie County Record Patriot:

During the week surrounding Earth Day, the conservancy has several opportunities to help...

04/20/2022

The Benzonia Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to dedicate $40,000 to a proposed sewer feasibility study (a total cost of $100k, with the villages of Benzonia and Beulah each dedicating $10k and the Benzie County Board of Commissioners dedicating a matching $40k)--$80k from Benzonia Township and Benzie County is coming out of the $169,360.32 in 2022 adult-use ma*****na payments given to the township and $169,360.32 given to Benzie County by the state for allowing four adult-use recreational ma*****na businesses to operate within the township/county.

The study will look at septic systems along part of the Crsytal Lake shoreline and will evaluate how many households and businesses are hooked up to what systems? For instance, it is already known that the entirety of the Village of Benzonia has water but no sewer system, thus relying entirely on septic systems.

Read more at Benzie County Record Patriot: https://bit.ly/3jXai3u

Benzonia Township and surrounding municipalities have dedicated $100,000 to do a regional...

04/19/2022

"Michigan's Department of Natural Resources said its program is stocking 20 million fish — 350 tons — including six trout species, three salmon species, lake sturgeon, muskellunge and walleye."

Via Benzie County Record Patriot: https://bit.ly/3jQBMYz

As spring draws closer, you may find fish stocking trucks releasing their prized cargo at...